Rhene when the Gratious vertuous Princesse Psal 45. his highnesse sister was al glorious her cloathing of wrought gold when shee was to be brought to her Illustrious Palatine in rayments of needle worke the Virgins that were her fellowes to beare her Companie when with all ioy and gladnesse shee was to be brought to enter into her Princes Palace that in steed of her Parents shee might haue children whom shee might make Princes in forraine lands Then when righteousnesse looked downe from heaven and all the Christian world resulted with ioyfull acclamation some fewe Curs of Antichrist excepted Then that even then this blessed Prince to be willing to leaue the world and his happy soule to be contented to be loosed from the fetters of the flesh How should it amaze those subterranean Moles who desire to haue their portion still in this life crying faciamus his tabernacula Who when Death serveth the execution vpon them are most vnwillingly drawne Math. 17. and pulled from worldly delights as beasts from their dennes with malevolence violence roaring out as lamentable a farewell to their soules as Adrianus the Romane Emperour who cryed out Animula vagula blandula c. That his fondling and darling soule was now fleeting he knew not vnto what darknesse danger it should passe where now shoulde be hits lodging now that it was to loose hits former delight and sporting he knew not the pace the place the passage the entertainment how farre was he from him whose motto was Nec pudet viuere nec piget mori frō all the Saints of God that know they are but translated dissolued gathered to their fathers fallen a sleepe their life is hid for a time that they lay downe their tabernacles lie downe in peace sleepe in the Lord rest in hope wait their change that death is only a ferry a boat a bridge to convay them into another place or as a Groome that lights a taper into another roome But ô humane witchcraft that so enchanteth those two divinely polished tables of the soule the wil vnderstanding cheating the affections in the one checking the meditations of the other Why do not the gallant walking Ghosts of this godlesse-age provide more willingly to entertaine the divorce dissolution of their earthly frame why so dayly do they incur the death of both parts when as their defluxion and consuming course is daily manifested every minute they liue being a steppe vnto death every action pulling away some part of their beloved life when like a candle continually burning they are howrely dying and yet as vnwilling to die as weake to resist death the head a skull the breath smoake the eie water the braine dirt the hart dust the body a house of clay Scal. Exer. 148. and men themselues are not men but peeces and fragments of men as Scaliger told Cardā and no waies to passe to life but by the gate of death as the Israelits could not passe to Caanan but by the dead sea and as an ancient compareth our body disposed into the fower humors vnto the veile of the Temple composed of the 4. Colours as this vaile must be removed before the entrance can be obtained into the Sanctū Sāctorum so must the body put of mortality to indue it selfe with immortality But the fleeting Meteors of this fond age neglect the Contemplation hereof and being no more able to abide death then quiet in thinking on the feare of death they wish to fly even from thēselues and to be discharged frō being guided by so ill a guest as their owne soule they wish their portion to continue in this life they can be cōtent to stay here for ever The base wealth false pleasures vaine hopes lying promises fained friendship short glory fading beauty of this dull and dungeon-like life yeelds them sufficient satisfaction otherwise to be sequestred from these itching toies bewitching ioies and to leaue the world they are most loathsomly loath they answere they know where they are whither they shall goe they know not and herevpon in the instant of their trāsmigration they are so vnwilling to leaue the world hence is it that they begin to feele the flames of Hell before they goe downe to the graue before them horror behinde them terror on the one side sinne on the other shame fire in the hand a serpent at the heart terrors of the night sting of conscience feare of hell torture them and their vnwillingnes to die is most willing to torment them But I proceed my subiect is sorrow whom I follow 10 How sorrowful a day was this Vigil of his death How watry that day the 5. of November which should haue beene the day of feare and fire and fury if that Tragedy which Antichrist and hell plotted had been acted How was this day the day of Ioy and Iubile for deliverance I say how was the glory and beauty thereof changed by this Ecclipse of the Princely sunne The Lord even then visiting vs Lament 2.22 as Ieremy complaineth in the Lamentations Lord thou hast called vs in a solemne day and now terrors are round about vs. A day that at the institution thereof did occasion more cause of ioy to vs thē any ordinary day of deliuerance to the Iewes our deliverance greater our enimies more cruell their snares more fearefull the mischeefe more miserable the misery more generall and the proiect more horrid and terrible then ever any we read of among Iewes or Gētiles Graecians or Barbarians or the history of any estate hath read heard or registred in times Chronology A day wherein they cryed of Zion downe with it downe with it even to the ground Wherein the Oracles of our wisdome the Chariots of our Israell the sacred Reverence of our Clergy had beene devoured the learned Guardians of our Iustice the whole estate of our weale-publike by a publicke woe had beene blasted and blemished and consumed A day that should haue been mother to the fowlest monster and monstrous plot that ever was purposed or performed facinus tale quod nec Poeta fingere nec Histrio sonare nec mimus imitari poterat even in that day wherein wee were freed and delivered by a miraculous hand from this hell-borne horror intended against vs. O how was this daie altered by the publicke sorrow for vertues sicknesse This fift day feare possessed City and Court a day that though Pythagoras and Hesiod count to bee most infortunate yet was never ominous or inauspitious to vs witnes the gracious preservation of the Lords Annointed on the 5 of August and this 5 of November Now many hearty prayers were in fiery Chariots sent vp to heauē to implore divine maiestie that this day we might not be led into the temptation of such a tempestuous shipwracke as the losse of our Prince Hesiod Virgil. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Hesiod and Quintam fuge is Virgils caution and Rhodiginus giveth the reason Coel.
his practise much more Among many others this one remarkable monument shall rest with renowne vpon his memorie he abhorred an oath laying besides the Obeliske of imputation a pecuniary mulct vpon those his followers and family who were found faulty in swearing which monies were duly distributed to the poore Neither can I here omit his religious answer made vnto one that wondred at his sports to obserue his highnesse freedome from oathes hee answeres I never knew any sport worth an oath This holinesse so early began ended not sicknesse diseased it not sorrow disordred it not He shewed his owne care of serving God then in his daily calling vpon him commanding in the entrance of his sicknesse that the ordinary howres prayers in his Closet should be duly observed as if hee had derived pietie as well as royaltie from Ioshuah his example whose speech was Iosh 24.15 I and my house will serue the Lord besides the prayers which often he desired to bee vsed at his highnesse bed-side wherein a learned and Reverend n = * D Milborn Deane of Rochester Deane then assisting fearing to distemper his pained head with any lowd voice his highnesse earnestly calleth and willeth him to speake more openly such was his happy and harty respect to his religious prayers As also his desire and delight to receaue those heavenly plentifull instructions and to partake in those holy powerfull devotions of the most Reverend Archb. who daily did both visit and perfect that good worke in him so that neither the dulnesse of the disease drowsinesse of his head dimnesse of his eies or disturbances of his whole afflicted body could hinder the divine part from her great solace in so great sorrow Learne hence yee profane vnseasoned soules who never name God but in oathes never thinke vpon him but in extremitie yee sencelesse gracelesse Gallants to whom will is a law appetite a Lord reason a servant and religion a drudge a time will come when you shall not knowe how to thinke vpon God because yee beginne to learne but then the Apostle questioneth you how can yee call vpon him in whom yee haue not beleeued Rom. 8. Thinke you to liue with him whom yee haue reiected from liuing with you because this is the ende of all knowledge entertaine yee this knowledge only in the end of your liues How many great ones haue slept their sleepe and found nothing when lying vpon the altar of their death beds to sacrifice their bodies for the sinne of their soules the hart like a peece of dead flesh hath beene without sense of loue of feare of care of paine from the deafe stroakes of a wrath revenging cōscience These harts surbated with cares surfeted with riots as they haue no naturall traduction of goodnesse so no celestiall infusion of grace Mercury hath gouerned their braine Iupiter their liver Mars their gall Saturne their spleene Laur. Anat. but Sol the sunne of righteousnes had never any power over never any place in their harts O stony steely hardnes of hearts which no blowes can breake to whom nothing shall be granted though it may bee required because nothing was performed which was commanded O loathsome soule poore and bare and naked can al thy compassing friends infuse no one teare into thine eyes one drop of comfort into thy hart one repentant sighe from thy soule one graine of faith into thy spirit one mite of mercy one iot of ioy into thy conscience O dumbe dumpe shall the world Eccho thy sinnes hell eccho thy sorrowes Art thou in thy passage and knowest that no sooner is thy candle out but the large history of thy life shall be openly read Is the impostume of thy lies lusts oathes oppressions now breaking the vaile of hypocrisie now to be remoued and thy memory to become as odious to all men as thy life was tedious to good men hast thou beene vnhappy in thy birth vngodly in thy being and must thou bee vngratious in thy end Consider this ô all yee that forget God least he suddainely take yee away when there shall be none to helpe you strike of all delaies which haue already devoured too much of the good time Cast anker see if you may shun the dāgers as eminent as imminēt shake of the viper avoid the enimy the avēger fly frō the indignatiō like to fall vpō you least that time which yet yee may take overtake yee and then yee haue neither power to resist nor patience to beare nor place to avoid Let not hoary sinnes bring home heavy horrours season your selues bath and embalme your soules least your bodies be their sepulchers and you their murtherers begin early if the sixt houre be past overslip not the ninth if the ninth be past foreslow not the eleventh stay not til the last houre for he that doth somtimes doth not all times giue a daies wages for an houres worke Qui promisit poenitenti veniam non promisit omni peccanti poenitentiam Looke vpon that Princely patterne of goodnesse who in young yeares being holy and devout stedfast in faith ioyfull through hope rooted in charitie hath passed the waues of this troublesome world and is finally come to the land of everlasting life 9 And sweet Prince how willingly did HE submit himselfe both to his visitation to the end therof his death when lifting vp his minde to heaven he discovered that so bright and beautifull glory and contemned al things on earth enfolded in a mistie darknesse Divine Eagle piercing beyond the orbe of the sun when neglecting in paines the body which was to be a nest of wormes he desireth in ioies to satisfie his soule which was to be a Companion of Angels Heroicall spirit who willingly entred the Combat with the last enimy that is to be destroied Death when vpon the Vigil of his departure being visited by that most Reverend Prelate the Archb. his Grace and religiously questioned by his Grace whether he could willingly submit himselfe to the will of God so far as the stroak of death his highnes replyed yes willingly with all my heart and though not with so great liberty of tongue as loue in heart manifested hereby that he was not so sure to dy as to be restored so outfaced his death with his resurrection with his ever-living loue of ever-lasting life O heroicall nay more O Angelicall spirit fined and polished in this furnace of his affliction that so freely so faithfully is readie to forsake all and to follow the Lambe whither soever he goeth Rev. 7. who with white hands and a cleane soule was fit to serue and to attend his Saviour yea even then to sing with Simeon Luk. 2.28 Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace Then I say when the earth partaked so much of the beauty of heaven so many delights so many pleasures so many Triumphant magnificent Tropheys for the ioyning of those two royal Virgin riuers Thames and
PRINCE HENRY HIS FIRST ANNIVERSARY HEB. 11.38 Of whom the world was not worthy BY DANIEL PRICE Doctor in Divinity one of his Highnesse Chaplaines AC OX AT OXFORD Printed by Joseph Barnes 1613. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND Father in God his Honourable Diocesan the Bishop of EXETER and Visitor of Exeter College RIght Reverend Father my duty hath often incited me to performe some due observance to your Lordship Your honourable care of our flourishing College hath been my remembrancer pleaded with me as the Elders did with our Saviour for the CeÌ„turion Hee is worthy that thou shouldst doe this to him he loueth vs Luk. 7.5 and his predecessour built our synagogue Your LP. hath been long a painefull carefull father to the Church to our tribe to our College and God hath extraordinarily blessed you that before your eyes your two eyes your two learned worthy sonnes in your dayes and in your Church serue at the Altar The reason that I presume to present this to your Honour is because you truly honoured him whom it concernes that was the excellent ornament of his age present and true mirrour to posteritie Your especiall observance of him in his life being made knowne to his Highnesse by the worthy Gentleman my ever honoured friend Mr Richard Connock had beene as truly rewarded as it was gratiously receaued hâ—d he liued But he is translated and now raigneth in heaven not for a day as Adontah or for a weeke as Zimri for a moneth as Shallum for six months as Zachary for two yeares as Elah for three yeares as Asa for forty yeares as David or fifty fiue as Manasses but forever and ever where in time you shall meet him to remaine with him without all time My selfe with my best devotions shal ever rest at your honourable disposall while I am DANIEL PRICE Exeter Coll. Decemb. 7. The fatall day of Prince Henries funerall PRINCE HENRIES FIRST ANNIVERSARY WHeresoever the Gospell shall bee preached mention shal be made of Mary Magdalen Mark 14.9 not only for loving her Lord in life when shee came to weepe to wash to wipe his blessed feete but also for that when he by whom shee lived was dead and shee for whom he died enforcedly left aliue shee provided her ointments for his dead bodies ornameÌ„ts to pay him the last tribute of external duties of sepulchral obsequies Her former action in the house perfumed the house only her later affection manifested at the graue hath persumed her memory through the world Chrisâ—â— A sinner to annoint her Saviour It is strange often doth the heaven bath the earth but never did the earth bath the heaven til Magdalens teares yet more straÌ„ge that though the life yet the loue of her Maister could not languish in her colde brest though shee missed his heaveÌ„ly word to kindle it and his bodily presence to cherish it yet shee followeth through the shadow of death at the crosse and passeth to the chambers of death at the graue post funera funus after Nichodemus and Iosephs odors Ioh. 19.38 prepared by art and applied by devotion shee casts into the rich treasury her two mites of loue and lamentation and giues the world a checke who performeth duties of loue only in life and makes eie Service the most harty observance A meditation that since I conceived hath laboured so farre with me that I presume to bring forth this hasty but harty manifestation of my boundlesse desires endlesse duties to the memory of that late gracious now glorious Prince beyond all titles in his worth all sorrowes for his death whom no eie with iudgement ever beheld without ravishment lest therfore the remembraÌ„ce decay with the losse or the mothe of neglect infest the Princely vesture of great HENRIES memory seeing Pharaoh had his Pyramis Ioseph 2. Sam. 18.18 and Absolon his piller and that in the bad made worse kept vow of Ieptha the daughters of Israel went yearely to lament the daughters of Ieptha Iudg. 11.29 Why should PRINCE HENRYES Anniversarie bee an eie sore to any that are pleased with worse obiects Why should not the remembrance of our Iosias be like the perfume made by the art of the Apothecary Ecclas 49.1 sweet in all mouthes pleasing in all minds In favours done our memories ought to bee fraile but in benefits receaued eternall Right deare in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints Psal how much more in the eies of his Saints the death of this Prince ought to be pretious who living was vertues child Religions friend the Churches advocate Common-wealths hope the poores Master and Gods deare servant 2 Hune tantum terris fata ostendere Honourable and renowned plant as the first flowre of the fig-tree in the prime and bloming of his age hee was translated into heauen and why did not heauen and earth remoue their stations sunne and moone loose their motions and summer and winter period their seasons at this cause of sorrow What in the world shall make shewe to sence of stabilitie what creature is a fixed starre if such a Prince must die whom besides the by earthly healps of drugges and amulets the divine hopes of vertues prayers teares plaints could not keep aliue yet he is aliue on earth in al good mens thoughts in heauen in all Gods ioyes though our eies cannot now hehold him because HE is to bright a sunne for our weake sight our lookes must be limited to a meaner light we must rather humble our selues to the twilight of inferior things then celestiall spirits To follow him in the pace that nature lent him his life or to the place where nature left him his death deserveth a various curious tract were rather an Annall theÌ„ an Annuall remeÌ„brance to think hereby to add to him reputation that smoaking vapour drawne from earthly honour of popular admiration were frivolous neither profit to him dead or approved of the wise aliue To excuse the cause of doing this were to accuse the manner of doing it and therefore without Apollogie let this testifie that I am a perpetuall votarie to the honoured memorie of blessed PRINCE HENRY that whatsoeuer any other wants be I may not bee censured for want of duty that so while I shall runne the race of my sinfull daies and continue the passage of my fleeting pilgrimage higher powers not otherwise disposing or displeasing hereat Iudg. 11. I may as the daughters of Israel once a yeare bestow some odors or ointments vpoÌ„ my Princely Masters monument and burne some incense to his memories excellence 3 All the world were sate to see harken how his Highnesse hopefull youthfull age should be employed for in HIM a glimmering light of the Golden times appeared all lines of expectation met in this Center all spirits of vertue scattered into others were extracted into him Pliny Epi. Xenoph. Cy. rop Fox Acts monuments 2. Vol. so that